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Alumni News
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Services. | Jim Houston has
been appointed by Gov. Jerry
Brown as undersecretary of
the Department of Food and
Agriculture, where he has served
as deputy secretary since 2011.
2010
Elizabeth Kiessling Buff earned
a Master of Arts in National
Security from the U.S. Naval War
College. A lieutenant in the JAG
Corps, she is stationed in Hawaii.
| Lan Diep won the San Jose
District 4 Council election.
2011
Kim Bowman has been named as
a candidate for Utah’s lieutenant
governor with gubernatorial
candidate Mike Weinholtz. |
Mariam El-menshawi was named
the recipient of the National
Crime Victims Law Institute 2016
Legal Advocacy Award. | Steve
Hansen, who joined McGeorge as
the director of capital initiatives,
won the Sacramento District 4
City Council election.
2012
Roseanna Carvacho was promoted
to senior policy advisor
and counsel in Brownstein
Hyatt Farber Schreck’s governmental
relations group in
Sacramento. | Justin Delacruz
was appointed to the State
Bar of California Attorney
Diversion and Assistance
Program Oversight Committee.
Delacruz has been staff counsel
at the California Correctional
Peace Officers Association since
2015. | Erika Gonzalez has
joined the Coalition to Abolish
Slavery, a Los Angeles nonprofit
that combats human trafficking.
| Colin Sullivan has joined
Patreon as its first in house
counsel. | Sarah Tobias has
joined Archer Norris in Walnut
Creek as an associate. | Kevin
Walkow was appointed chief
of legislative affairs for juvenile
operations at the California
Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation, where he has been
an attorney in the Office of Legal
Affairs since 2014.
2013
Kalle Mikkola has joined
Acquest Law as a partner. |
Candace Myers joined the
Humboldt County District
Attorney’s Office. | Naresh Virdi,
formerly known as Naraesh
Birdi, founded Acquest Law in
Sacramento.
2014
Darren Cordano, Eurik
O’Bryant, and Simran Sekhon,
have opened a professional law
corporation, Sekhon & O’Bryant,
in Lodi. | Rebecca Diel joined
Parish Guy Castillo PLC in
Stockton as an associate. | Natalie
Kuffel joined the Thomas Law
Group. Previously, she clerked
for Judge Morrison England of
the U.S. District Court, Eastern
District of California. | Danielle
Lenth joined Allstate Insurance
Company in Rancho Cordova as
in-house counsel.
2015
Courtney Dowell joined the
California Department of
Corrections’ board of parole
hearings as in-house counsel.
| Ernesto Falcon has joined the
Electronic Frontier Foundation
as legislative counsel. | Selena
Farnesi has joined Fresno
County as a deputy district
attorney. | Kristen Martinez and
Monika Troike have been hired
as Sacramento County deputy
district attorneys. | Junn Paulino
joined the Bohm Law Group, a
statewide employment law firm,
in Sacramento as an associate.
Erika Gonzalez, ’12